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Identifying and responding to microaggressions

This short online course will help participants understand, identify, and address the impact of microaggressions.

About the course

Microaggressions are subtle, everyday slights or put downs. Regardless of whether they are intentional or unintentional, they can create a hostile working environment.

This short online course (2.5 hours) aims to help participants understand and identify microaggressions, particularly racial ones, and their impact on recipients. It will also cover strategies to avoid committing microaggressions and how to respond when witnessing them. The session includes discussions, activities, and reflections led by two experienced academics.

Dates available:

  • Thursday 2 July 2026, 10:00am to 12:30pm 
  • Friday 11 September 2026, 10:00am to 12:30pm 

Format/Delivery:

  • Online (Zoom)

Course Fee:

  • £180 per person

Discounts may be available for bulk purchases. Please enquire at hlscpdadmissions@brookes.ac.uk

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Course Outline:

The course will enable participants to develop an understanding of:

  • What microaggressions are
  • How to identify them
  • What is the impact is on the receiver
  • Ways to avoid carrying out microaggressions
  • How to respond to witnessing microaggressions when they take place.
  • The focus will be on racial microaggressions but other types of microaggressions will also be discussed.

During the session, you will be invited to participate in discussions, activities and short reflection tasks guided by two academics with personal and professional experience in the area.

Benefits

Course participants will increase their awareness of a key area of equality and diversity practice that will enable them to be more inclusive in their professional and personal lives.

Course participants will also leave with resources to support deepening their understanding of key issues.

Feedback from previous cohorts

“This was a great workshop to share information about microaggressions and how they impact people of the global majority in a compound and chronic way”

Course participant

“Brilliantly crafted, explained the nuances well and energised me further to take an anti racist stance”

Course participant

Contact us

Course will be delivered online.

  • Course Lead, Prof Louise Taylor, Email: louise.e.taylor@brookes.ac.uk
  • General Enquiries: HLS CPD Admissions, Email: hlscpdadmissions@brookes.ac.uk 


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